Fantasy for All Ages

The WIP Queue

First an update: Yesterday I finished the current draft of DREAMER’S ROSE. In the process, I managed to cut it from over 400 pages (approximately 100,000 words) to just over 300 pages and 75,000 words. It will still need at least one more pass before it’s ready for readers. It’s still not living up to its potential. There are problems I know I need to fix first, things I need to bring out more. And one whole section near the end where I practically lose the main character altogether. Well, she didn’t used to be the main character and that section makes sense from the other character’s point of view. But Rose has to be doing something useful during the climax. I’m going to have to give that some more thought.

Now, the WIP Queue:

Every once in a while, as I’m finishing up a couple of projects, I still get a little worried that there won’t be enough left to work on. What if I run out of ideas? Not to worry. A quick check at the WIP (work-in-process) queue allays those fears.

Leaving aside sequels, for the moment:

DREAMER’S ROSE: When a demigod succeeds in becoming a god only to find that nothing has prepared him for the challenges he now faces and the results of his own failures, it takes an outcast girl with the ability to enter dreams–even his–to help him make things right.

SEVEN STARS: When a young woman unintentionally unleashes the berserker curse in her blood, she is exiled from her home and everything she loves forever, unless she can find a way to control the berserker fury and, if possible, a cure for the curse.

THE SHAMAN’S CURSE rewrite: When a boy (or possibly a girl, in the rewrite) fails to save his friend from a flash flood and earns the hatred of the friend’s father, he can only put an end to the vendetta against him by learning to accept and use his own innate magic.

THE BARD’S GIFT: A young woman living on the frontier of a new world must learn to cope with an ancient gift amid the challenges of wresting a new home from dragons and malevolent neighbors.

And that, as I said is leaving aside (that I know of):

Two sequels for BLOOD WILL TELL

Two sequels for MAGE STORM

And one sequel for THE SHAMAN’S CURSE

And that’s just what I have fairly well-formed ideas for. No need to worry.